EXTRACTS FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1865, 7 April 1869, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS.

The case of Overend, Gurney, and Co. will Boon have quite a voluminous literature of its own. Mr Stefanos Xenos has a book in the press. Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards, it is believed, is also preparing an autobiographical statement at the request of the Lord Chancellor, who was much interested by the sketch of his remarkable career given in the witness-box. Mr. David Ward Chapman has thrown his mSmoireß pour servir into the form of a letter to his father which appears in this morning's " Times." It relates, however, rather to Edwards than himself. He repudiates all responsibility for the accounts of Mare, Lever, or Xenos. He explains that after a " most casual consultation " with himself the Gurneys gave Edwards £5000 as his first year's salary j that Edwards handed it over to him, but he was then in no sort of want of money, and it was offered by himself as a simple deposit at 5 per cent, interest; that he paid interest on it regularly and part of the principal, and would have put the debt in his list of creditors, but that Edwards preferred " to run the chance of my honorably paying him in case I ever started afresh." Edwards impressed Mr Edmund G-urney by his sagacity when consulted, from his knowledge of bankrupt estates, as to tiie "illegitimate advances" of the firm; and the latter thus addressed him when paying the first £5000:—! " Eriend Edwards, I do not see how we are to go on without thee." Mr J. H. Gumey, when in a fit of alarm j he came up from Norwich to ascertain the position of the house, also begged Edwards to watch affairs for him. In this way Edwards became possessed of sufficient knowledge to have forced us to have put up our shutters within twenty-four hours of his revelations if he had chosen to make them." Mr D. "W. Chapmau therefore concludes that there was no alternative but to "soothe him down" the best way they could, and to make the best possible terms with him. Mr D. W. Chapman is at present on the Continent ; he writes from Tours. Only two members of the Upper House have, we believe, gained much reputation as journalists, Lord Eoberfc Cecil, now Marquis of Salisbury, and Viscount Strangford, and of these the second died suddenly on Saturday. Lord Strangford belonged to a cultivated race, and early distinguished himself as a philologist. He acted as Oriental Secretary to Lord Eaglan in the Crimean war, and is said to have spoken Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Eomaic, and most languages of Western Europe with equal facilty. His knowledge of geography was equally great, and he was as familiar with Indian politics as if he had passed a life in their study. As a writer hie was singularly lucid, keen, and occasionally happy, and perhaps his only literary defect was that of all amateurs, he hit a little too hard. Should the war in the East really break out, the loss to the country in his death will be severely felt. The Marquis of Bute was reconciled to the Church of Eome at Nice on Christmas Eve, and is going, it is said, to the Holy Land before his return to his native country. The comments on his change of faith are very funny. The " Times," in deploring the young man's rashness, and explaining that it can't after all make much difference, since even £300,000 a year in the hands of an enthusiast is not a revenue that can materially help the Pope, intimates that as a matter of course a youth with £300,000 a year ought to be much more fastidious in satisfying himself of his change of conviction than a youth with only £300 a year. At an " age and under circumstances when delay would not only have been natural, but becoming," he was a foolish young man to do as he did, and " throw a considerable portion of his power away." Evidently the " limes " holds that the rich young man who went away " sorrowful because he had great possessions" was quite in the right. "At an age and under circumstances when delay would not only have been natural, but becoming/ he

I decided on delay, and had no doubt the judicious public opinion of " the coasts beyond Jordan" decidedly iv his favour. It is proposed to erect a memorial church at Oxford to the late Archbishop Longley. The cost is estimated at from £15,000 to £20,000. The subscriptions promised already amount to upwards of £2,000, and in the list are the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops of Oxford, St. Asaph, and Chester. For the first time a Jew appears as senior wrangler at Cambridge. Mr Numa Edward Hartog, the successful man, is the son of the Professor of French at the Jews' College; he was educated first at University College School, and then at University College, after which he went to Cambridge, where he obtained a minor scholarship at Trinity almost at once, and a foundation scholarship in his second year. Having been approved for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the question has arisen whether the forms of admission can be modified to meet his religious scruples; a congregation will be held to-day to consider a recommendation j by the Council of the Senate that the ! words "in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti" should be omitted from the usual oath.